LIFE SCIENCES:
Workforce
Maryland’s Life Science Workforce
Maryland is home to one of the nation’s strongest life sciences industries, employing more than 54,000 people (according to the Milken Institute), across a wide range of jobs in R&D, manufacturing and laboratories. Maryland’s high concentration of STEM workers, along with some of the most highly-educated professionals in the nation, make it one of the leading places for life sciences and high-tech businesses to lay down roots.
Colleges & Universities Power Leading Life Sciences Workforce
Maryland is home to Johns Hopkins University, a top-producer of biomedical engineers and biostatisticians, among other highly scientific professionals. And when those highly qualified scientists are looking for work, they have a built-in career path in Maryland. Johns Hopkins isn’t all that’s powering our workforce. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the University of Maryland, College Park are also major contributors to the local scientific talent pool. Maryland’s network of 16 community colleges is also responsible, continually launching new programs and curriculum to meet local workforce needs. In particular, Frederick Community College and Montgomery Community College are especially focused on preparing the workforce for industry jobs, creating initiatives such as “bio boot camps” to quickly train entry level employees needed by organizations of all sizes right in their backyards.
Explore Maryland Training Programs
Various institutions across Maryland provide specialized training to power a strong local life sciences workforce. Read about the programs available below.
BioHub Maryland
BioHub trains Marylanders of all educational backgrounds and gives employers a competitive edge by training new workers in skills-industry needs so that they can immediately add value at the workplace.
Bio-Trac
Bio-Trac® offers hands-on biotechnology training workshops ideal for bench and research scientists. Bio-Trac provides custom designed training programs for government, private and academic institutions.
BioTRAIN
BioTRAIN offers training modules developed with industry input. In addition, BioTRAIN staff work closely with Montgomery College’s biotechnology programs to place students.
The Biotechnical Institute (BTI)
BTI offers free skill-based scientific training to qualified adult high school graduates who are unemployed or underemployed to become entry-level biotechnicians/lab techs, providing employers with a stream of ready-for-hire, well-qualified lab technicians.
The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES)
Created by Maryland-based National Institutes of Health, the FAES offers an array of management and leadership development seminars and workshops provided to help the medical science and public health community to advance their professional knowledge.
Bridges to BioTech
Bridges to Biotech is a collaboration between the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, the National Institutes of Health, and the Maryland Department of Commerce to provide Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows with additional training and networking within the industry.
